Who Made Who (song)

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"Who Made Who"
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Single by AC/DC
from the album Who Made Who
B-side "Guns for Hire" (live)
Released12 May 1986 [1]
RecordedDecember 1985
Genre Hard rock
Length3:27
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
AC/DC singles chronology
"Shake Your Foundations"
(1985)		"Who Made Who"
(1986)		"Heatseeker"
(1988)
Music video
"Who Made Who" on YouTube

"Who Made Who" is a song and a single by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, taken from their 1986 album, Who Made Who . The 12-inch single format of the single features an extended mix of the song and can be found in the Deluxe Edition of AC/DC's Backtracks Boxset , on Disc 1, Studio Rarities. It was one of only three new tracks on Who Made Who, because the album is not only a soundtrack to Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive , but a compilation album featuring tracks from previous albums. The other two new tracks were instrumentals. "Who Made Who" peaked at #23 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart on 19 July 1986, and stayed on the chart for 12 weeks.

Contents

In addition to the song itself, "Who Made Who" has also been played live, mostly throughout the subsequent world tour and the Blow Up Your Video World Tour. It was also played live with replacement drummer Chris Slade throughout The Razors Edge World Tour, and with drummer Phil Rudd (who returned to the band in 1994 after being fired from the group 11 years prior) for only one gig at the opening night of the Ballbreaker World Tour in Greensboro, North Carolina, after which the song was dropped and has not been played live since. A live version was released on the 1992 album AC/DC Live .

Music video

In the video to this song, directed by David Mallet, [2] filmed in the lobby of and onstage at the Brixton Academy music venue in London, fans and radio contest winners were dressed like Angus Young, and carried red cardboard guitars similar to Angus's Gibson SG. The video's plot features scientists replicating Angus by means of science fiction technology; the lookalikes are shown en masse, marching in time to the song and raising their heads to chant the title phrase along with the chorus. A photo of Angus standing amid a group of his counterparts can be found inside the 2003 Digipak release of Who Made Who. A couple of AC/DC shows had some look alike Anguses on the stage with them, such as at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, where six were present.

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1986)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report) [3] 9
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [4] 35
Norway (VG-lista) [5] 7
UK Singles (OCC) [6] 16
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [7] 23

Year-end charts

Chart (1986)Position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [8] 36

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [9] 2× Platinum160,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ) [10] Gold15,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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References

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  2. ↑ mvdbase.com – AC/DC – "Who made who?"
  3. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 11. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
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